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Improve Collaboration at Your Company

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

Everyone on your team has personal responsibilities beyond their jobs. If they’re parents, they’ve likely become full-time caretakers to their children. They might also be navigating a spouse’s unemployment or a family member’s illness.

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Evidence-Based Product Backlogs, by John Pagonis

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, John Pagonis – then UX Lead at ‘The Mortgage Works’/Founder of Zanshin labs, shares his experience of creating an evidence-based backlog. Watch the video to see the talk in full, or read on for an overview of his key points: Product Waste – Do you really have time and money to waste [.]. Read More. The post Evidence-Based Product Backlogs, by John Pagonis appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Go Beyond SQL to Discover Your Most Profitable

Product Management Today Submitted Articles

A business analyst will tell you that funnels are a crucial part of understanding a customer’s journey from their first site visit to revenue generation.

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Startups, Avoid Being Vitamins At All Costs

The Product Coalition

In mid-May 2020, we were just closing our seed round after an 8-week-long fundraising process. Two weeks later, we started to have concerns over our product and vision. After a full month of interviews and explorations, we understood we needed to hard pivot. This article is about how we came to understand the shortcomings of our vision, and why we eventually decided to pivot.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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TEI 304: How to become an influential product manager – with Ken Sandy

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can discover customer needs and build the right product. I’m often asked by product managers on their journey to product master what books they should read. I have a new one to recommend. It covers a broad perspective helpful to less experienced product managers all the way to those who are leading other product managers. It covers: .

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 3, Incremental Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

So far, we've discussed the lever of canceling a project at any time with the serial lifecycles in Part 1. That's assuming you replan and/or cancel. We added another lever of looking for more feedback with iterating over the requirements in the iterative lifecycles in Part 2. Teams have another lever. They can release increments of value. That's what the incremental lifecycles offer.

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Seven Ways Northwestern Mutual Prioritizes Transparency When Developing Fintech Products

The Product Coalition

According to Laine Henry, UX Lead at Northwestern Mutual Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The Challenge Of Being A Grocery Store Product Manager

The Accidental Product Manager

Product managers need to find ways to attract customers who avoid stores Image Credit: Kyle Sorkness. Everyone has to go out and buy groceries, right? Well, it turns out that at one time that would have been a correct statement; however, these days things have changed and now customers have many choices on how they can get the groceries that they need.

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Uncharted Territory: AI, User Research, and What’s Next with with Hana Nagel, Service Designer at Element AI

UserInterviews

AI is becoming a part of everything we do, so how do we ensure it's user-friendly, ethical, and unbiased?

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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How to Keep Yourself and Your Team Motivated During Tumultuous Times

ProductCraft

When organizations in every industry put together their 2020 plans, none of them could have predicted the current state of the world. For many of us, our routines, schedules, and plans have all flipped upside down, leaving us in an entirely different working environment. With so much change happening at once, teams around the globe. Read more » The post How to Keep Yourself and Your Team Motivated During Tumultuous Times appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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What a Pre-PMF Startup Should Look Like

The Product Coalition

In the beginning of June 2020, we had enough cash to sustain ourselves for 2 years, and had decided to pivot. At the time, we weren’t sure if we needed to move away from our product, on which revenues were growing very slowly, or not. We spent 6 weeks in full exploration mode to identify what our next step was. During this period, we went through different phases, which gave us several lessons that helped us identify our final vision to build an open-source data integration engine.

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Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement Agile turns into micromanagement as a result of the middle management’s resistance to change. Despite better knowledge, changing an organization into a learning one that embraces experimentation and failure is not in everybody’s best interest. Self-organizing, empowered teams often conflict with the middle management’s drive to execute personal agendas, self-preservation being one of them.

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Product Strategy Lessons From Henry Ford

The Product Coalition

Ford Model T revolutionized transportation and powered multiple other revolutions. What made it such a success, and what can we all learn from it? Hint: innovative technology can only take you so far. By ModelTMitch?—?Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, [link] Henry Ford didn’t invent the car. He wasn’t even the first to sell cars: in 1908, the year model T was launched, Karl Benz was already selling cars for more than 20 years in Germany, and the Duryea brothers were celebrating 15 years in business in the

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.